The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole, following freer economic policies. Most of these states have freer government and less restrictions on trade.

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.